You were just sobeautiful and vulnerable I just could not help myself from wanting tokiss you. To help comfort you."Still not looking up at him, "It's... ok, really. I overreacted too. I justhave never had these feelings before. It's all new to me." So you have feelings for me?"Anne cursed herself for saying too much. "You and your father, the wholecrew even, have been kind and generous to me, but I have been alone toolong to get involved with anybody." I understand. My father has arranged for a. We did this for months until we couldn’t stand being away from each other. We agreed to meet in Pennsylvania, a state between both of us. We scrounged up our money (we didn’t have much, me being 17 and her being 16) and made our way to a small town in Pennsylvania. I used some more money I had saved up to rent us a motel for a few days. I suspected my parents would come looking for me since I had been gone; Rachael expressed no such concerns. I got to the hotel early and waited in the room. I. Yep, I was coming to appreciate that woman and what she could do for me. Martha even let me out of the house for about three hours to visit the saloon. It also served as the local gentlemen's club, so I had a chance to see most of my friends. I even played a little penny-ante poker.By noon of the next day, I was starting to feel a bit stir-crazy. I decided that I was going back on the road the next day. Martha was against it, but even she finally gave up when I proved too stubborn for her. As I had feltthe touch of your hands seem to reshape, to sculpt an outer shell, nowI felt from within reshaped, reformed.Even now, later, hours later, past the midnight that makes another day,I am expanding from within, as if the touch of your hand, like thepotter's on the spinning clay removed a heavy earthen excess. Shrinkingfrom without, spun beneath your hands, as the same I am burgeoning fromwithin, a bud opening, opening.Shall I now disappear, now that I have surrendered?No.No. I rested.